Journey Hitherward Scrapbook

Houses

The Indian builds permanent houses with kivas. A kiva is a subterannean room, or nearly so, always with a sipapu---a hole-- to symbolize the womb of Mother Earth.

went up to Jensen could almost have forded 1t there In oxtords whensaw it WE ARE ACROSS WE BUILD COMHOUSE HOUSES COMMUNITY HOUSES now are people Our KIVAS WITH MUNITY HOUSESMen Medicine the by arriving at the land promised it found Zuat tho Earthnear to the Center of the and It beink promised our tinal home with surcesse of andering we began to build buildmasonry permamentlyrock-walled onclosures severs Now the seribe recording house mywlt Whatsay back but Nousalscenturies wishes to draw one if evenspace enclosed Soset down squarechose we cave the w0l of that squarotho rock wall of about Oue such sauare sigaitios One housoWhat Pueblo true Lty of rooms Community House square enclosed of Mercly follow the same conception design ropeat it four Fetain the samo enclosed lyph to divide times square form lines drawn through 11 nd now we haveplurallty of houses four which is Palace in MeSust a5 go0d as drawing out forty the CIIt This glyphrooms hundred two some had Verde in our signity wil tour of square rooms of Blurality we as plurality any for wella ust writing Srahpic hugeor Palace CIEE for moon half i 223 irew of thors for Pucblo Bonita KIVAS OUR RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION But what about our greatest compelling motiveour religion Ara wa keeping that up Aro we bullding Ki What is kiva but subterannean room or near ven if onlyfew Inches tofoot or wo is actually holounder ground level always Withsipapurom which We the symbolical womb of Mother Earth Cushing emergedthis upper plane read which hole or Is consult someiy standard text on archeology Where near the center Noed to show kivashat our faith persists true ourfather ancients We need kiva to the space rogion of the Nortkivatho space rogion of the West Kiva to the space roglon of the Sout kiva to the space regionthe East Enoughthem for al our clans We already have the FOUR spaco roglons 1n our glyph forplurality of roomss we merely put dot diE Hole in each of the four rooms nearly central and thereby stguiy plurality of kivas Thero were something ke tweaty-three kivasOEC Palacoenough for all Boeds or all claas Digital image 2003 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved